Browse comps and student work by academic department.
Graduated in 2024
Will Prim, English (ENGL) 2024, Ballad of the Bones: The Prophetic Balladry of Byron Herbert Reece
Nathan Przybyla, Music (MUSC) 2024, Verspätung
Isabel Rameker, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2024, Filipino American Food Persists: The Power of Food Traditions and Identity in the Filipino American Diaspora
Sophie Rast, Studio Art (ARTS) 2024, The Ant Hill
Jack Rizzo, Linguistics (LING) 2024, Possession, Existence, and Multifunctionality: The Case of Vietnamese Có
Emma Roskopf, Economics (ECON) 2024, From Selfies to Resumes: The Impact of Online Privacy Concerns on Unemployment Duration
Emma Roskopf, Lily Haas, Sam Bradie, Andrew Hong, Ian Mortensen, and Varun Saini, Computer Science (CS) 2024, Safety First: The Effects of Hyperparameter Tuning in Safe Reinforcement Learning
Brenna Russell, Biology (BIOL) 2024, Butyrate’s Maintenance of Colonic Homeostasis via PPARγ Activation
Varun Saini, Mathematics (MATH) 2024, An Introduction to the Hyperreals
Christian Schultz, Economics (ECON) 2024, Can Machines Replace Us?
Christian Schultz, English (ENGL) 2024, "This Time is Different" & "The Apocalypse Game"
Emilie Scott, Biology (BIOL) 2024, α-synuclein and neuroinflammation pathology in Parkinson's Disease and Baicalein as an approach to halting disease progression
Ian Scott, Biology (BIOL) 2024, One Fish, Two fish, Hot Fish, Dead Fish: Effects of Temperature and Flow on Pacific Chinook Salmon
Sonia Shah, Psychology (PSYC) 2024, Estrogen as a Treatment for Positive, Negative, and General Symptoms Experienced in Women with Schizophrenia
Sammi Sheridan, Helen Moses, Miles Frisch, and Evan Christensen, Statistics (STAT) 2024, Incorporating Nonspatial Policing Information into Spatial Models
Lev Shuster, Adrian Boskovic, Chris Melville, Josh Moore, Thomas Pree, and Sam Johnson-Lacoss, Computer Science (CS) 2024, Explainable AI: Breaking Down the Black Box
Juanita Silva, Psychology (PSYC) 2024, Substance Use Disorders Among College Students: Risk Factors and Interventions
Maddie Smith, Art History (ARTH) 2024, El Sueño de La Malinche: A Woman’s Body under Construction
Alyssa Soma, Psychology (PSYC) 2024, Psilocybin and MDMA on Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
Nicholas Spezia-Shwiff, History (HIST) 2024, From Liberators to Conquerors: Luxuria, Geopolitics, and Roman Imperialism in the Greek World, 264–146 BC
Mira Stephens, Biology (BIOL) 2024, Inhibition of Host Protein Synthesis by Legionella pneumophila as a Strategy for Amino Acid Acquisition and Host Cell Cycle Arrest
Marko Stojanovic, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2024, Scout's Pride
Micah Jay Strike, Biology (BIOL) 2024, Water flow as a rescue mechanism for corals during marine heatwaves
Charles Sweat, Economics (ECON) 2024, Greener Firms in the US Automotive Industry: Electric Vehicle Policy & Production
Ahtziry Tinajero, Spanish (SPAN) 2024, Humanizando la historia: La crisis inmobiliaria de España
Blake Tran, Biology (BIOL) 2024, Saving Salmonids: Preparing Southwest Trout for Heat Waves and a Changing Climate
Peter Tu, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2024, Follow
Peter Tu, Sky Lu, Yuxin Lin, Jonas Bartels, Alice Cutter, and Sriya Konda, Computer Science (CS) 2024, Panda or Paintbrush? An Exploration of Adversarial Attacks on Image Classifiers
Vasilii Vaganov, Biology (BIOL) 2024, Decoding the Intricacies of Cajal Body Formation: Unveiling the Sequential Cascade of RNA Seeding, Coilin N-Terminal Oligomerization, and Coilin C-Terminal Recruitment
Marycruz S. Valdivia Acosta, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2024, Amor Eterno en el Autismo; Autistic Upbringing, the Self, and the Prioritization of Love/Care
Isabella Vazquez, Biology (BIOL) 2024, The impact of heatwaves on temperature-dependent sex determination mechanisms in Trachemys scripta elegans
Eli Venetis, Economics (ECON) 2024, Family Income and the Returns to Education: The Effect of Credit Constraints
Eli Venetis, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2024, Forgotten Beauty
Mira Verma, Barclay Shove, Leo Qi, Hannah Ku, Angel Garcia-Ramirez, and Parker Walther, Chemistry (CHEM) 2024, Elucidating the Intricacies of Enzyme Catalysis
Aniketh Vipparla, Biology (BIOL) 2024, Duel of the Fates: Type VI Secretion System versus Biofilm in Acinetobacter baumannii Virulence
Will Vonderlage, History (HIST) 2024, A Polarizing Push: How the 1968 Olympic Protest Efforts Further Fractured the Black Freedom Struggle
An Vong, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2024, Home for the Holiday
Aidan Walker, Religion (RELG) 2024, Sacred Storefronts: Responses to the Questions of the American City
Jackson Walker, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2024, United States of Karate-do: Building Inclusive Communities in the Martial Arts
Hannah Ward, Studio Art (ARTS) 2024, To Be and To Love
Henry J. Weismann, Economics (ECON) 2024, Kids on the Move: Modeling the Impact of Children on Migratory Decision-Making
Anna Weller, Psychology (PSYC) 2024, An Exploration of Risk Factors for Alcohol Use Disorder Among Sexual Minority Communities
Eleanor Weston, Studio Art (ARTS) 2024, Shoreline and Canoe Watercolors
Alex Wilson, History (HIST) 2024, Those who “Rend Flesh with Wicked Teeth:” Werewolves, Outlawry, and the Natural World in 12th Century Anglo-Norman Literature
Thomas Wolf, Economics (ECON) 2024, Generational Bridges: Exploring the influence of age at adoption on adopted parents’ intergenerational transmission of education
Kevin Xiong, Economics (ECON) 2024, Illiquid Assets Affecting Personal Bankruptcy
Jisoo Yeom, Biology (BIOL) 2024, Deciphering the Role of Phosphorylation in Period2 Using Frequency as a Model
Kimberly Yip, Ashok Khare, and Sydney Nguyen, Computer Science (CS) 2024, Pen-testing
Xingyi Zhang, Psychology (PSYC) 2024, Rates of Statistically Significant Findings among Traditionally Published Articles, Preregistered Articles, and Registered Reports
Yichen Zhang, Philosophy (PHIL) 2024, Between ren and Community: how does one die with moral value?
Bob Zhu, Economics (ECON) 2024, Just a Small Town with 10 Million People: Urban Agglomeration’s Effects on Labor Productivity in Chinese Cities
Graduated in 2023
Collin Adams, Biology (BIOL) 2023, The Multifaceted Role of Codon Usage Bias in Regulating Gene Expression
Luisa Alves Escosteguy, PJ Sangvong, Etienne Richart, Duc Nguyen, and Shirin Sharma, Computer Science (CS) 2023, Wiki Addition Viewer: An extension to add insights to your Wikipedia experience
Evangel Anyiwe, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2023, Justice: Political Structure’s Effect on Sentence Length
Jancyn Appel, Political Science (POSC); Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2023, Equality isn’t the Goal, but the Expectation: An Investigation of the Constitutionality of Racialized Policies through the Lens of Thurgood Marshall’s Supreme Court Opinions
Kelsie Armstrong, Biology (BIOL) 2023, Acclimation and Fluctuating Temperatures Affect Ecological Performance and Development in Frogs
Laurie Avila, Psychology (PSYC) 2023, Tangles, Trips, and Treatment: An Overview and Analysis of the Therapeutic Potential of Psychedelic Therapy for Alzheimer’s Disease
Hannah Babcock, Studio Art (ARTS) 2023, Body and place
Juliana Bachulis, Linguistics (LING) 2023, Phonological Approximation in Computer-Mediated Communication: Governance of Deletion and Lengthening in SMS
Juliana Bachulis, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2023, Xi’s China and Trong’s Vietnam - The Emergence of Populism in the Authoritarian Context
Sophie Baggett, Biology (BIOL) 2023, Alzheimer's Disease: Turning Towards Tau
Avigail Bailon, Dominic Calicdan, and Chloe Truebenbach, Environmental Studies (ENTS) 2023, Environmental Justice Curricula in Interdisciplinary Environmental and Sustainability Programs: Examining the Variance of Liberal Arts Undergraduate Institutions that Include Environmental Justice Curricula.
Lucille Baker-Stahl, Geology (GEOL) 2023, The Hidden Falls Member: Lithostratigraphy and Depositional Insights Into the Platteville Formation, Southeastern Minnesota
Maya Bannatyne, Geology (GEOL) 2023, Geochemistry, U/Pb ages, and Hf isotope analyses of plutons in Southeastern Alaska: Implications for the Resurrection plate debate and associated magmatism
Nicolas Bell, Geology (GEOL) 2023, Investigating Environmental Effects on Sediment Trapping and Binding by Microbial Mats
Lillian Berets, Gender, Women's and Sexuality Studies (GWSS) 2023, Sharing Our Roots: A Radical Economy of Community Carework
James Berger, Computer Science (CS) 2023, PictaPhone: Using smartphones as Controllers
Aaron Berkowitz, Biology (BIOL) 2023, ApoE-TREM 2 Interaction: An Important Regulator of Alzheimer’s Disease Pathogenesis
Raine Bernhard, History (HIST) 2023, “By Virtue of a Bond”: Overseas Familial and Financial Connections between Loyalist Refugees and Americans after the Revolutionary War
Eledon Beyene, Studio Art (ARTS) 2023, Eledon's Fall Comps
James Bice, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2023, 3 Phone Calls
Indigo Bistrup-Peterson, English (ENGL) 2023, Between Meals
Sam Blair, Economics (ECON) 2023, International R&D Spillovers, Trade, and Welfare
Sawyer Blair, Studio Art (ARTS) 2023, Wood and Clay: A Material Study
Avery Blumenthal and Lucas Cantrell, Environmental Studies (ENTS) 2023, Politics and Economics in the Endangered Species Act: Evaluating Endangered Species Delistings
Zoe Bonnell, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2023, From Gratitude to Grief: Conceptions of Identity and Belonging Among Chinese American Transracial Adoptees
Marte Borgmann, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2023, Labors of the Heart: Experiences of Refugee Resettlement Organization Workers
Maddie Boulis, Biology (BIOL) 2023, Human Cytomegalovirus RNA2.7 aids Viral Immune Evasion
Sean Boyce, Emma Watson, William Stepanksi, Lucy Shapiro, Ania Hoang, Nell Shafer, William Chang-Stucki, and Nora Caballero, Chemistry (CHEM) 2023, A Molecular Perspective on Ammonia Chemistry in Atmospheric Water Droplets
Robert Breyer, Economics (ECON) 2023, The October 2019 Conundrum: Testing How Zero-Commission Trading Has Influenced Market Efficiency
Anders Brodnax, Economics (ECON) 2023, How the Paycheck Fairness Act Would Reduce the Gender Wage Gap
Harper Brooks-Kahn, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2023, "The 90 Minute Patriot": Sports and Secessionism through Time-Series Regression Analysis
Lauren Bundy, French and Francophone Studies (FREN) 2023, « Ça n'existe pas, l'humour sans frontières » : Corporalité discursive chez Blanche Gardin
Emma Burke, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2023, Virtue/Vice
Ross Burnside, Biology (BIOL) 2023, Common Is Not Always Optimal: The Reasons for Using Rare Codons in Genes
Cole Cadaram, Chemistry (CHEM) 2023, Modern Techniques in Electrochemical Organic Synthesis
Eway Cai, Chemistry (CHEM) 2023, Targeted Protein Degradation and Genome Editing as Novel Applications of Chemical Inducers of Proximity
Cristina Camarillo, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2023, Maintaining and Creating Relationships with Rural Homeland Communities: An Ethnographic Study of Regalitos Being Exchanged between México and Texas
Lee Camp, Linguistics (LING) 2023, Breaking the Binary: Evaluating Gender Inclusivity in Neural Coreference Algorithms
Emma Carlson, Biology (BIOL) 2023, Codon usage bias as a regulatory mechanism of gene expression
Jalen Causey, Psychology (PSYC) 2023, Love, Truth, and Healing: An Integrative Discussion of Childhood and Generational Trauma
Isabella Cha, Economics (ECON) 2023, The Case For Paid Maternity Leave: Reducing Inequities Between Low-Income and High-Income Women
Ben Chao, Chemistry (CHEM) 2023, Electrodeposition of p-Type Mixed Metal Oxide Semiconductors from Aqueous Metal Nitrate Solution
Susan Charlie, Economics (ECON) 2023, Overturning Roe v. Wade: Economic Implications of Abortion Access on Women
Isabella Charlton, Biology (BIOL) 2023, Regulation of Abiotic Stress Response in Arabidopsis Via Alternative Splicing
Robin Cheatham, Studio Art (ARTS) 2023, Reflection On Self
Eleanor Chen, Biology (BIOL) 2023, Torpor-Associated Thermoregulation and Appetite Regulation in Endothermic Mammals: A Concerted and Tailored Process
Jared Chen, Thomas Zeng, Teagan Johnson, and Nathan Hedgecock, Computer Science (CS) 2023, Replication of "Counterfactual Fairness in Text Classification through Robustness"
Kevin Chen, David Chu, Anna Neiman-Golden, Chisom Oguh, Ben Aoki-Sherwood, and Lita Theng, Computer Science (CS) 2023, Is a Dollar Worth a Thousand Words? Visualizing the Connections Between U.S. Congress Members’ Funding and Speech
Emma Chin, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2023, (In)Visibility: Analyzing Media Coverage of Anti-Asian Hate Crimes in the Wake of COVID-19
